Our Voices
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Egyptian Government Continues Unjust Crackdown on Civil Society
Tags Share (March 22, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights condemns the Egyptian government’s escalating attempts to silence the country’s civil society, as the government moves to reopen Case No. 173/2011, popularly known as the “foreign funding case.” The first phase of the case resulted in 43 staff of international non-governmental organizations…
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Russia: Stop Crackdown on Human Rights Defenders
Tags Share (March 18, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) A Moscow district court yesterday fined the Public Verdict Foundation human rights organization 400,000 rubles for refusing a Russian government demand that its publications acknowledge it is a “foreign agent.” Public Verdict will appeal the decision. Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights urges the government to dismiss the…
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Rwanda Restricting Access to African Human Rights Court
Tags Share March 17, 2016 – Today Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joined a group of 40 leading African and international human rights organizations in a joint statement criticizing the government of the Republic of Rwanda for withdrawing individual access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights – the highest human rights tribunal…
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RFK Human Rights Condemns Assassination of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres
Tags Share (March 4, 2016 I Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins the voices of the human rights community to condemn the killing of Berta Cáceres and call for a full and swift investigation of this awful crime. Berta, a courageous Honduran human rights defender and environmental activist from the Lenca indigenous people,…
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RFK Human Rights Responds to False Report on Moroccan Television
Tags Share (February 29, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Earlier this month, on February 19, 2016, Laayoune Television broadcast a false report that Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights had cancelled a planned trip to the region and halted all of the organization’s human rights work regarding Western Sahara. In light of these false reports, Robert F.…
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U.S. Senate Passes North Korea Sanctions Policy and Enhancement Act
Tags Share (February 11, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights praised the Senate for passing the North Korea Sanctions Policy and Enhancement Act of 2016 with unanimous and bipartisan support. In response to the passage, Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, issued the following statement: “The human rights atrocities…
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Case of 43 Missing Students in Mexico Continues to Stump Investigators
Tags Share With only three months remaining until the Group of Experts’ mandate expires, the international team tasked with investigating the case of the enforced disappearance of 43 students from Guerrero, Mexico, is facing serious obstacles in their quest to find the truth about the students’ demise in September 2014. A coordinated defamation campaign against…
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Mexico: Ongoing Defamation Attacks in the Media
Tags Share Campaign is an Attempt to Hide the Truth and Obstruct Justice There is a coordinated defamation campaign gaining greater coverage in the Mexican media against the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its acronym in Spanish). Through an agreement between the Mexican government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the legal…
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House Passes North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act
Tags Share (January 13, 2016 | Washington, D.C.) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights praised the House of Representatives for passing the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016 with overwhelming bipartisan support, 418 – 2. Among other provisions, the bill will further limit North Korea’s access to the international financial system, target individuals involved in…
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Mexico Must Advance Investigation Into 43 Disappeared Ayotzinapa Students
Tags Share On the night of September 26, 2014, students in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero were violently attacked by local police; 43 students were detained and disappeared. The case of the forcibly disappeared students of Ayotzinapa is a painful example of the human rights crisis facing Mexico and has prompted international and country-wide indignation.…
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Rights for Dominican Women Regress to the 19th Century
Tags Share In a recent decision, the Dominican Republic’s highest court struck down protections that allowed women to have an abortion in cases where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, where the fetus is deformed, or where continuing the pregnancy places the woman’s life in danger. The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision reinstates a total ban…
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Dominican Republic Must Restore Citizenship to Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Tags Share (Washington, D.C. | September 23, 2015) Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights expresses ongoing concern over the unresolved violations of the right to nationality for Dominicans of Haitian descent and treatment of migrants in the Dominican Republic two-years after the Constitutional Court retroactively stripped over 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent of their citizenship, in…
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